A survey carried out by Irish Business Against Litter shows that rubbish is largely limited to neglected city areas.

New results from last year’s census show the labour force has increased by almost 6% since 2006.

A FEAR barrier built up through crime and violence was last night broken down for more than 100 Limerick people.

KIDS’ play is music to the ears of the promoters of the Limerick Regeneration scheme.

OMINOUS signals had been coming from the Limerick Regeneration Agency in recent weeks.

WORK is being finalised on fitting out a major indoor sports and recreation centre for young people living in Southill and Ballinacurra Weston.

ORCHESTRAL music and children’s songs yesterday swept through a school in the heart of one of Limerick’s designated regeneration areas.

Guns, ammunition and drugs were recovered today by detectives investigating the murder of innocent gangland victim Shane Geoghegan.

A KEY €15 million expansion plan at a waste treatment plant in Limerick will create 50 jobs.

LIMERICK city council is to discuss a plan to coral troublesome families into special housing clusters as part of the huge regeneration plans being drawn up for huge council estates.

BISHOP Donal Murray of Limerick has given the go-ahead for a parish revival plan in Southill.

LIVES will be lost if powerful controlled drugs stolen in Limerick at the weekend hit the streets, gardaí warned last night.

WORKERS at the Fulflex plant in Limerick, which ceased production last Friday, have agreed a redundancy package worth almost five weeks pay per year of service.

A LIMERICK company which is closing on May 5 with the loss of more than 100 jobs has been accused of being mean-spirited in the redundancy package offered to workers.

ALMOST 3,000 households and commercial outlets in Limerick have been left without a refuse collection service following the liquidation of Limerick Waste Recycling.

ONE of Limerick’s longest established industries is to close with the loss of more than 100 jobs, citing high labour costs as a major cause for relocation to a lower cost economy.

One hundred and eight jobs are to go at an elastic goods manufacturers in Limerick, it was announced this afternoon.

A HUGE quantity of heroin and cocaine destined for sale during St Patrick's Day celebrations in Limerick was seized yesterday in a major garda operation.

A man in his 60s was killed instantly yesterday after he was hit by a flying wheel from an articulated lorry on the outskirts of Limerick.

A LIMERICK school is set to be offered temporary accommodation because of the rundown conditions in their 30-year-old building.

THE roof is leaking, there are holes in the floor, the sewage pipes are broken, the heating doesn’t work - there is no money in the kitty.